...from Cedip Infrared Systems to equip its 2 new coastguard patrol craft
...the PHAROS LRN is a high-resolution gyrostabilised multi-sensor platform...designed to provide..surveillance imaging in all visibility conditions (day or night). ...a two-axis stabilised platform equipped with a long range 640 x 512 pixels cooled thermal imager to give night capabilities and a colour CCD camera with powerful zoom for daytime operation.
The system supplied to the General Directorate of French Customs will be controlled by two piloting consoles integrated and interfaced with the patrol craft navigation systems. The PHAROS LRN enables detection of small boats at distances of up to 10 nautical miles and automatic tracking of targets spotted by video or detected by ship radars.
Cedip http://www.cedip-infrared.com/security/application_detail.php?id=14
~This press release reminded me that filming something is NOT the same as tracking it. As in: "In contrast to filmic concerns such as transition, montage, and characterization, this militarized language was one of positioning, tracking, identifying, predicting, targeting, and intercepting/containing." (---Source unknown)
Posted by Stubbornson at January 31, 2007 02:25 PM